ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,936, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus comprising a bias current generator" was invented by Nishant Singh Thakur (Broxbourne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a bias current generator for generating a bias current, the bias current generator comprising two or more negative threshold transistors of the same type and coupled in series."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2022, under Application No. 18/082,942.

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